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I and care
`` I can take care of this.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
`` I vowed to take care of you -- and that's what I'm gonna do.
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.
But if you are able & care to come, you know how glad I shall be.
`` I do not care if your beliefs take you along a path of religion or a path of labor or a path of activism.
Frankly, I don't care ''.
You may stay as long as you wish, of course, but if arranging for the care of the girls must take time into account, I think a day or two should be enough to finish our business in ''.
He don't care at all, and I don't care to get my head busted neither.
He don't care, and I don't care to have his shit flung on me.
What you think I care about that??
Each time Letch `` went up '' in his `` lines '', I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into `` sulks '' and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the `` set '' for the rest of the day.
I am equally impatient with the shrug of the shoulder, shake of the head of those who no longer care because they have known it for so long ; ;
`` I wouldn't have gone into nursing if I didn't care about people.

I and how
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I understand how you feel about the child.
`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.
`` I heard how you outdrew Chico.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
I remembered, too, the jesting voice of a classmate, Bobby Pauson: `` But how do they reproduce, Dr. Griggs??
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
`` By observing the conductor '', he says with a twinkle in his eyes, `` I learned how not to conduct ''.
Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.
When I speak of how Shann felt, I know well.
Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;
No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.

I and soon
`` I guess I'll find out soon enough.
`` Just as soon as I go to the bank, and '' --
Suddenly and not a second too soon I thought of the coins in my pocket.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi.
I was in charge of the arrangements -- which were soon enough disarranged.
`` I soon came back to my senses '', he said, aloud, to the young blizzard, proudly, drawing himself up, as if making a report to some important superior.
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.
`` Please come down as soon as you conveniently can '', the upright letters stalked from the broad-nibbed pen, `` I have an important matter to discuss with you ''.
As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.
`` I expect to be tough as a knott as soon as I get over the Georgia Shitts ''.
Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.
I am told the time will soon come when women will find it necessary to do most of their own work, and even now it is important to have conveniences for the use of servants.
I knew that I'd soon be back working as an orderly at the hospital or as a counterman at Union News or Schraffts while waiting for another acting job to open.
It suddenly occurred to me that I did not particularly like acting, that I was at some sort of crossroads and would have to decide soon what I was going to do with my life.
I turned left too soon and got a signal showing that I was still behind him but he was to the right.

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